Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. balletomanes learned more of the split between Massine and de Basil-a split which forecast an international ballet war-when word came from England that the two had taken certain differences into court. Dancer Massine, whose current contract with Colonel de Basil expires Sept. 15, had joined another company, notified Colonel de Basil that he claimed exclusive right to all the ballets, many of them drawing cards, for which Massine had devised the choreography. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Luxmoore of Chancery Court the two parties brought this question: can property right be claimed...
...went on inside neither Labor's Hillman nor the Association's Attorney & Organizer David Cole would say, but the conference was followed by another next day. And from this session, which lasted until 2 a. m., Mr. Hillman emerged with a smile on his face and a contract in his pocket. First step toward stabilization, it agreed to union recognition, $18 weekly minimum for weavers and $15 for other less experienced workers, a 40-hr., 5-day week, time-&-a-half overtime...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
Retirement? Reading scripts, Muni grades them like a schoolteacher, awarding "A1" to those scenes which have good dramatic values and also fit him perfectly. His contract allows him to reject any role he does not like. He rejects four out of five. What his next part will be is not known. With the completion of Zola, Muni began a long vacation. In October he and his wife will start on a trip round the world, avoiding war zones. During shooting of Zola, Muni gave several intimations that Zola's epitaph in the film might mark his own permanent farewell...
Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which not only recognized the Steel Workers Organizing Committee but signed an exclusive bargaining contract, apparently had as little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir...